The after effects of the Boxing Day storm on a car parked on Ramsgate's east pierhead.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ILB Launches on service during the months June, July and August 1974 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 4 and July 1.
Aberdovey, Gwynedd 1, 23, July 2, 17, 19 (twice), 20, 23, 31, August 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 19 (twice) and...
Category: Services
Mr. G. S. Woodman, of Hythe, who died on 1st June, at the age of forty-six, had been joint honorary secretary of the Hythe life-boat station for three years, and in that short time had made him- self of great value to the station, in which...
Category: Obituaries
On the afternoon of July 9 a giant wave washed three boys off Sterlochy Rocks immediately east of Findochty Harbour. Two were pulled to safety by Uwe Brandt, an oil rig worker, who waded more than waist deep into the rough seas. Buckle... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chairman at the Annual Meeting held at the Mansion House, April, 1917, and President of Life-boat Day, 1917. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE German Government has awarded to the Crew of the Life-boat at Thurso, Caithness-shire, " an Iron Plaque for rescue from distress at sea," diplomas to the Coxswain, Second Coxswain and Bowman, and certificates to the members of...
Category: Services
MAY 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast, bound from the Tyne to Poole, with coal, ran ashore in foggy weather about two miles north of Flamborough. The call for a life-boat was...
AT the end of 1949, Mr. A. C. Butcher, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E., the superin- tendent engineer, retired from the Institution on reaching the retiring age.
He had then been with it for over twenty-eight years. He joined its...
Category: Committee
THE Institution has received a gift of £l 6s. from H.M.S. Stork, stationed at Penang, the result of a collection made among the ship's company in memory of the ship's cat, Tiger, which was lost overboard at sea..
Category: Donations
ONCE again the Institution will have on sale a pictorial calendar. This, for 1968, will consist of a very striking cover, bearing a dramatic colour picture taken at sea from the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat, and the months spread over...
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